When I stand by the stream and watch it, I am relatively still, and the flowing water makes a path across my memory so that I realize its transience … - Alan Watts

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When I stand by the stream and watch it, I am relatively still, and the flowing water makes a path across my memory so that I realize its transience in comparison with my stability. This is, of course, an illusion in the sense that I, too, am in flow and likewise have no final destination — for can anyone imagine finality as a form of life? My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.